How to avoid the Olympics on Twitter

Follow these simple steps to dodge spoilers, stay focused, or avoid oversaturation during the Olympic Games.

Olympics fever is taking hold of the world, though there’s a remedy for those who want to avoid it on Twitter.

Twitter doesn’t provide a way for you to filter out terms you don’t want to see, but a number of third-party apps allow you to do so. Taking the Twitter-owned TweetDeck as our example, here’s a quick guide on how to filter out Olympics-related tweets without unfollowing anyone.

1) Identify which words and hashtags you don’t want to see

This requires a little work, since you’ll need to know what hashtags and words the people you follow are using in their Olympics tweets. Keep an eye on those hashtags and note which ones you want to hide over the next few weeks.